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The Chicago Teachers Union is asking for raises amounting to 30 percent over the next two years, the opening salvo in heated contract negotiations with school officials who are implementing a longer school day across Chicago Public Schools next school year.
Documents obtained by the Tribune show that in the face of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's expansion of the school day, the union has led with an offer seeking a 24 percent raise in the 2012-13 school year and a 5 percent increase the following year, the net effect being 30 percent.
I hope it passes. The liberals in Chicago who keep supporting the unions and foisting dopes like Barry Obama and Dick Durbin on the rest of the country deserve to pay. Dearly.
I hope it passes. The liberals in Chicago who keep supporting the unions and foisting dopes like Barry Obama and Dick Durbin on the rest of the country deserve to pay. Dearly.
This is an example of the greed of the left probably going to win out. I wonder how that public employees' union will manage to prove that it was the greed of the right that caused their raises. I am sure they will try but do wonder how they will convince lefties that it was the right and not their greedy membership that "broke" the city.
Guys, it's a union proposal...they can ask for whatever they want.
If you have been following things in Chicago....Emanuel has been all over the unions seeking ways to cut costs and close the city budget gap. You just don't hear about it (unless you follow Chicago news) because Emanuel is a (D) and so you don't have the nasty political fight garnering attention like in Wisconsin with Walker (R).
P.S. The people in Chicago do indeed pay dearly for the entrenched corruption and cronyism. Property taxes are brutal and they now have the 2nd highest sales tax (regressive against the poor) of any major metro area.
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Guys, it's a union proposal...they can ask for whatever they want.
If you have been following things in Chicago....Emanuel has been all over the unions seeking ways to cut costs and close the city budget gap. You just don't hear about it (unless you follow Chicago news) because Emanuel is a (D) and so you don't have the nasty political fight garnering attention like in Wisconsin with Walker (R).
P.S. The people in Chicago do indeed pay dearly for the entrenched corruption and cronyism. Property taxes are brutal and they now have the 2nd highest sales tax (regressive against the poor) of any major metro area.
MG,I know what you do for a living and I'd say you are damn good at it,BUT IL has been raped in recent years over education costs...it's not just the cost of wages,but the perks...the teacher's assistants,nepotism and on and on that is bad here...sometimes enough is enough.
Guys, it's a union proposal...they can ask for whatever they want.
If you have been following things in Chicago....Emanuel has been all over the unions seeking ways to cut costs and close the city budget gap. You just don't hear about it (unless you follow Chicago news) because Emanuel is a (D) and so you don't have the nasty political fight garnering attention like in Wisconsin with Walker (R).
P.S. The people in Chicago do indeed pay dearly for the entrenched corruption and cronyism. Property taxes are brutal and they now have the 2nd highest sales tax (regressive against the poor) of any major metro area.
Maybe most people don't understand how unions work. Like they always ask for more than they expect to get knowing that they can adjust down and still be ahead.
I will never forget how stupid the teachers in my district were in the middle 70s. They called in their newfound union people to run a protest for them and all of a sudden found that the union making ridiculous demands was at least as bad as the demands made by the lawyers representing the school board. There were three of us members who refused to go along with the unilon and one of us had been a union member, for years at a Goodrich plant. He kept trying to back them off but they had to make their attempt and they learned that union bargaining is never a bed of roses.
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